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Optical Identification of Rosat All-Sky Survey Galaxy Cluster Candidates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2016

B.J. McLean ,
H. Böhringer ,
R. Burg ,
R. Giacconi ,
J.P. Huchra  and
W. Voges
B.J. McLean
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, U.S.A.
H. Böhringer
Affiliation:
Max-Planck Intitut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, W-8046 Garching, Germany
R. Burg
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, U.S.A. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, U.S.A.
R. Giacconi
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, U.S.A. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, U.S.A. European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, W-8046 Garching, Germany
J.P. Huchra
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
W. Voges
Affiliation:
Max-Planck Intitut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, W-8046 Garching, Germany

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Clusters of galaxies are used to study large scale structure and evolution in the universe. The luminosity functions of clusters can be used to investigate their evolutionary effects while their spatial and angular correlation functions are a measure of large-scale clustering. There are, however, many problems with the traditional cluster catalogues that were derived by visual inspection of plate material. The widely used Abell catalogue (Abell 1958) has been shown to have significant problems in homogeneity and completeness (Postman et al. 1986).

Type
Part Thirteen: Properties and Clustering of Galaxies and Clusters
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 161: Astronomy from Wide-Field Imaging , 1994 , pp. 653 - 657
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

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